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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulador" title="Tabulador – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Tabulador" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabul%C3%A1tor" title="Tabulátor – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Tabulátor" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulatortast" title="Tabulatortast – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Tabulatortast" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulatortaste" title="Tabulatortaste – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Tabulatortaste" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulador" title="Tabulador – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Tabulador" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabo" title="Tabo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Tabo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%B4" title="کلید جهش – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کلید جهش" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touche_de_tabulation" title="Touche de tabulation – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Touche de tabulation" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_%ED%82%A4" title="Tab 키 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="Tab 키" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulatore" title="Tabulatore – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Tabulatore" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%90%D7%91" title="טאב – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="טאב" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5)" title="Tab (перне) – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Tab (перне)" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibonyezo_cha_mpangilio" title="Kibonyezo cha mpangilio – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Kibonyezo cha mpangilio" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabul%C3%A1tor" title="Tabulátor – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Tabulátor" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%80" title="ടാബ് കീ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ടാബ് കീ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(toetsenbord)" title="Tab (toetsenbord) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Tab (toetsenbord)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%96%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC" title="タブキー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="タブキー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulator" title="Tabulator – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Tabulator" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key" title="Tab key – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Tab key" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulator" title="Tabulator – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Tabulator" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(n%C3%A4pp%C3%A4in)" title="Tab (näppäin) – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Tab (näppäin)" data-language-autonym="Suomi" 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On this machine, the tab-rack is removable for easy reconfiguration.</figcaption></figure> <p>The word <i>tab</i> derives from the word <i>tabulate</i>, which means "to arrange data in a tabular, or table, form." When a person wanted to type a table (of numbers or text) on a <a href="/wiki/Typewriter" title="Typewriter">typewriter</a>, there was a lot of time-consuming and repetitive use of the <a href="/wiki/Space_bar" title="Space bar">space bar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Backspace" title="Backspace">backspace</a> key. To simplify this, a horizontal bar was placed in the mechanism called the tabulator rack. Pressing the tab key would advance the carriage to the next <a href="/wiki/Tab_stop" title="Tab stop">tabulator stop</a>. The original tabulator stops were adjustable clips that could be arranged by the user on the tabulator rack. Fredric Hillard filed a patent application for such a mechanism in 1900.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The tab mechanism came into its own as a rapid and consistent way of uniformly <a href="/wiki/Indentation_(typesetting)" title="Indentation (typesetting)">indenting</a> the first line of each paragraph. Often a first tab stop at 5 or 6 characters was used for this, far larger than the indentation used when typesetting. For numeric data, however, the logical place for the tab stop is the location of the least significant digit. Tabbing to this location and then pressing the <a href="/wiki/Backspace" title="Backspace">backspace</a> key to back up to the position of the first digit is practical but slow. Various schemes for numeric tabs were proposed. For example, in 1903, Harry Dukes and William Clayton filed for a patent on a tab mechanism with multiple tab keys numbered 1, 10, 100, etc. Pressing 1 was a simple tab. Pressing 10 advanced to the space before the tab, pressing 100 advanced to the position 2 spaces before the tab.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Initially tab stops were set by adding and removing clips from the tab rack, but Edward Hess working for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Typewriter_Company" title="Royal Typewriter Company">Royal Typewriter Company</a> filed for a patent in 1904 covering a system where the tab stops were permanently mounted on the tab bar. To set or reset a tab for a particular column, the tab stop for that column was simply rotated in or out of engagement.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1940, James Koca filed for a patent on a mechanism allowing the tab stops for each column to be set and cleared from the keyboard, eliminating the need for the typist to bend over the back of the machine to directly manipulate the tab rack.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These keys, if present, are typically labeled <b>tab set</b> and <b>tab clear</b>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_usage">Modern usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tab_key&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Modern usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Word_processor" title="Word processor">word processing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Text_editor" title="Text editor">text editing</a>, the Tab key will move the insertion point to the next tab stop in a table, insert the ASCII tab character, or insert multiple space characters (depending on the program used). </p><p>When filling out a computerized form, pressing Tab will sometimes move the cursor to the next <a href="/wiki/Text_field" class="mw-redirect" title="Text field">field</a> (and Shift-Tab will move the cursor to the previous field), eliminating the need to use a mouse to click in an adjacent field. </p><p>In many graphical applications, especially on <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a>, the Tab key will move the <a href="/wiki/Focus_(computing)" title="Focus (computing)">focus</a> to <i>every</i> <a href="/wiki/GUI_widget" class="mw-redirect" title="GUI widget">control or widget</a> such as buttons so that the user interface can be used without a mouse at all (this was part of the <a href="/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access" title="IBM Common User Access">IBM Common User Access</a> design). On <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>, this is an option called "Full Keyboard Access". </p><p>A feature called <a href="/wiki/Command-line_completion" title="Command-line completion">tab completion</a> can be used to complete a partially typed piece of text. For example, in some <a href="/wiki/Command-line_interface" title="Command-line interface">command-line interfaces</a>, you may type the first few characters of a command or file-name, then press Tab. If there is no ambiguity about your intent, the rest of the characters will appear automatically. On some systems, even if your input is ambiguous, tab completion may give you a list of possible options to select from. Tab completion is more common on <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> systems than <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">PC</a> <a href="/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">video games</a>, the Tab key is very often used to show scores in multiplayer games. For single player games it is also used to show the <a href="/wiki/Virtual_world" title="Virtual world">in-game world map</a> or the player's inventory, as well as other useful information. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Software_engineering" title="Software engineering">software engineering</a>, when developing computer programs or storing and manipulating data in files, the Tab character is often used for indentation purposes to help guide the flow of reading and add semantic structure to the code or data. Some programmers and programming languages prefer the usage of multiple whitespace characters instead for that purpose. Because of this, many text editors have an option that makes the tab key insert the number of whitespace characters that a tab character is set to be equivalent to (by default mostly four). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tab_characters">Tab characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tab_key&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Tab characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The most known and common tab is a <i>horizontal tabulation</i> (HT) or <i>character tabulation</i>, which in <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> has the decimal character code of 9, and may be referred to as <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">I</kbd> or <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">^I</span>. In <a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a> and many other <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming languages</a> the <a href="/wiki/Escape_sequence" title="Escape sequence">escape sequence</a> <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">\t</code> can be used to put this character into a <a href="/wiki/String_literal" title="String literal">string literal</a>. The horizontal tab is usually inserted when the Tab key on a standard keyboard is pressed. </p><p>A <i>vertical tabulation</i> (VT) also exists and has ASCII decimal character code 11 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">K</kbd> or <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">^K</span>), escape character <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">\v</code>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/EBCDIC" title="EBCDIC">EBCDIC</a> the code for HT is 5. VT is 11 (coincidentally the same as in ASCII). </p><p>Originally, printer mechanisms used mechanical tab stops to indicate where the tabs went. This was done horizontally with movable metal prongs in a row, and vertically with a <a href="/wiki/Carriage_control_tape" title="Carriage control tape">loop of mylar or other tape the length of a page with holes punched in it</a> to indicate the tab stops. These were manually set to match the pre-printed forms that were loaded into the printer. In practice, settable tab stops were rather quickly replaced with fixed tab stops, <i>de facto</i> standardized at every multiple of eight characters horizontally, and every six lines vertically. A printing program could send zero or more tabs to get to the closest tab stop above and left of where it wanted to print, then send line feeds and spaces to get to the final location. Tab characters simply became a form of data compression. </p><p>Despite the fact that five characters were the typical paragraph indentation on typewriters at that time, the horizontal tab size of eight evolved because as a power of two it was easier to calculate with the limited digital electronics available.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Using this size tab to indent code results in much white space on the left, so most text editors for code, such as <a href="/wiki/Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">IDEs</a>, allow the size of the tab to be changed, and some (in particular on Windows) default to four instead of eight. Disagreements between programmers about <a href="/wiki/Indentation_style" title="Indentation style">what size tabs are correct</a>, and whether to use tabs at all, are common.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Modern text editors usually have the Tab key insert the user-defined indentation and may use heuristics to adapt this behavior to existing files. </p><p><a href="/wiki/ISO_6429" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO 6429">ISO 6429</a> includes the codes 136 (Horizontal Tabulation Set), 137 (Horizontal Tabulation with Justification) and 138 (Vertical Tabulation Set) that were intended to allow the program to set and clear tab stops.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (April 2024)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Tab_key#editor's_confusion_about_HTS" title="Talk:Tab key">discuss</a></i>]</sup> This is rarely used or supported. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tab-separated_values">Tab-separated values</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tab_key&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Tab-separated values"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Tab-separated_values" title="Tab-separated values">Tab-separated values</a> (TSV) are used for exporting and importing database or spreadsheet field values. Text divided into fields delimited by tabs can often be pasted into a <a href="/wiki/Word_processor" title="Word processor">word processor</a> and formatted into a table with a single command. For example, in Microsoft Word 2010, Insert > Table > Convert Text to Table... is the necessary command, producing a dialog where the user selects further details. </p><p>The TSV convention for exporting data may be compared to the alternative <a href="/wiki/Comma-separated_values" title="Comma-separated values">comma-separated values</a> (CSV) convention (that may be using semicolons instead of commas), and both are easily converted into each other. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)" title="Gopher (protocol)">Gopher menus</a> use tab-separated values to indicate selectors. </p><p>TSV has also been cited in a modern approach to solving the programming debate regarding the use of tabs and spaces for code alignment called <a href="/wiki/Elastic_tabstops" class="mw-redirect" title="Elastic tabstops">elastic tabstops</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This idea uses a scheme called tab-separated columns (TSC) rather than the similar tab-separated values (TSV). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="HTML">HTML</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tab_key&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: HTML"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a> the horizontal tab is coded using <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">&#9;</code> or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">&Tab;</code><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-W3CCharacterRef_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-W3CCharacterRef-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but as with all whitespace characters in HTML, this will be displayed as a single space except inside <code class="nowrap" style=""><pre></code>, <code class="nowrap" style=""><code></code> tags (or other elements with <a href="/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets" class="mw-redirect" title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</a> attribute <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">white-space</code> set to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">pre</code>). </p><p>Here is an example: </p> <blockquote> <dl><dt>HTML</dt> <dd></dd></dl> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-html mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="ni">&#9;</span>This line begins with a single tab. Here<span class="ni">&#9;</span>are<span class="ni">&#9;</span>some<span class="ni">&#9;</span>more<span class="ni">&#9;</span>tab<span class="ni">&#9;</span>characters<span class="ni">&#9;</span>! T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T </pre></div> <dl><dt>Inside <code class="nowrap" style=""><pre></code></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <pre>	This line begins with a single tab. Here	are	some	more	tab	characters	! T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T </pre> <dl><dt>Outside <code class="nowrap" style=""><pre></code></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <div style="font-family: monospace, monospace;"> <p>	This line begins with a single tab. Here	are	some	more	tab	characters	! T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Notice that the tab at the start of a line is removed outside <code class="nowrap" style=""><pre></code>, the eight-character spacing, and how a tab stop is skipped if there are more than eight characters since last one. </p><p>CSS3 defines <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">tab-size</code> property, which adjusts the number of spaces for the tab character from the default of eight.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The latest version of <a href="/wiki/WebKit" title="WebKit">WebKit</a> supports the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">tab-size</code> property. The <a href="/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)" title="Opera (web browser)">Opera</a> web browser supports the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-o-tab-size</code> CSS property, the <a href="/wiki/Firefox" title="Firefox">Firefox</a> web browser supports the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-moz-tab-size</code> CSS property with the same meaning.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The vertical tab is <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">&#xB;</code> but is not allowed in <a href="/wiki/SGML" class="mw-redirect" title="SGML">SGML</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>; this includes <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a> 1.0<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and HTML. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unicode">Unicode</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tab_key&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Unicode"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> code points for the (horizontal) tab character, and the more rarely used vertical tab character are copied from <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0009</span> </span><span style="font-size:small"><control-0009></span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"></span></big> (CHARACTER TABULATION, horizontal tabulation (HT), tab)</li> <li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+000B</span> </span><span style="font-size:small"><control-000B></span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"></span></big> (LINE TABULATION, vertical tabulation (VT))</li></ul> <p>The tab characters can be graphically represented by <a href="/wiki/Control_Pictures" title="Control Pictures">special symbols</a>: </p> <ul><li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2409</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">␉</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SYMBOL FOR HORIZONTAL TABULATION</span></big></li> <li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+240B</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">␋</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SYMBOL FOR VERTICAL TABULATION</span></big></li></ul> <p>Unicode also has characters for the symbols to represent or be printed on the tab key:<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Arrows_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Arrows-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+21B9</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">↹</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFTWARDS ARROW TO BAR OVER RIGHTWARDS ARROW TO BAR</span></big> (tab with shift tab)</li> <li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+21C6</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⇆</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFTWARDS ARROW OVER RIGHTWARDS ARROW</span></big></li> <li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+21E4</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⇤</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFTWARDS ARROW TO BAR</span></big> (leftward tab)</li> <li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+21E5</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⇥</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHTWARDS ARROW TO BAR</span></big> (rightward tab)</li></ul> <p>Unicode provides additional characters for tab symbols with triangle-headed arrow:<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Arrows_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Arrows-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2B70</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⭰</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW TO BAR</span></big> (left tab)</li> <li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2B71</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⭱</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">UPWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW TO BAR</span></big> (up tab)</li> <li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2B72</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⭲</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW TO BAR</span></big> (right tab)</li> <li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2B73</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⭳</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">DOWNWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW TO BAR</span></big> (down tab)</li> <li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2B7E</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⭾</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">HORIZONTAL TAB KEY</span></big></li> <li><big><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+2B7F</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⭿</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">VERTICAL TAB KEY</span></big></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tab_key&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comma-separated_values" title="Comma-separated values">Comma-separated values</a> (CSV)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indentation_style" title="Indentation style">Indentation style</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tab_key&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110222053316/http://machinesoflovinggrace.com/ptf/UnderwoodPortableGallery.html">"Underwood Portable Typewriter Gallery"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-04-09</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Underwood+Portable+Typewriter+Gallery&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmachinesoflovinggrace.com%2Fptf%2FUnderwoodPortableGallery.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATab+key" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.machinesoflovinggrace.com/manuals/Underwood3-5manual.pdf">"Instructions for Using the Underwood Typewriter"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Koca, Typewriter stop mechanism, <span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US2358517">U.S. patent 2,358,517</a></span>, granted Sep. 19, 1944.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html">"Tabs versus Spaces"</a>. <i>www.jwz.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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